"Unforeseeing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fields looked to Aeneas as he approached them from the heights—full not only of souls in a blessed calm, but of those also who had yet to make their way into existence as it terribly is, had still to taste reality and pain. We were thankful, for a time, to go back to that kind, unconscious, unforeseeing world. But it is no longer possible. The war has become our life, and will be so for years after ...
— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... bargain; otherwise it would not have been a fair one. A corrupt and improvident loan, like everything else corrupt or prodigal, cannot be too much condemned; but there is a short-sighted parsimony still more fatal than an unforeseeing expense. The value of money must be judged, like everything else, from its rate at market. To force that market, or any market, is of all things the most dangerous. For a small temporary benefit, the spring of all public credit might ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
